[LLVMdev] Win32 JIT issue + bug in ScheduleDAGSNodes.h?

[srs]

Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> srs <skaflotten at gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>>>> While testing my compiler on win32 in JIT mode, I ran into a couple of 
>>>> issues:
>>>>
>>>> 1. I linked the compiler with the lib files resulting from the cmake 
>>>> created VS.NET build. While everything built just fine, the 
>>>> ExecutionEngine::create call always returned NULL. The fix was to also 
>>>> link with JIT.obj (thanks aKor for pointing me in the right direction). 
>>>> I would have thought that linking with LLVMJIT.lib should suffice... a 
>>>> VC++ linker issue?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Try adding this to the link command of your executable:
>>>
>>> /INCLUDE:_X86TargetMachineModule
>>>
>>> I should document this somehow.
>>>       
>> Yeah, this is necessary, but not sufficient. I also had to link with 
>> ExecutionEngineBindings.obj (not JIT.obj as first stated)
>>     
>
> So you are using the C bindings. Okay, could someone advise what to do
> here? Something like the _X86TargetMachineModule trick on
> lib/Target/X86/X86TargetMachine.cpp line 26, but on
> lib/ExecutionEngine/ExecutionEngineBindings.cpp?
>
> Why is not the linker automatically pulling that code? If you are using
> the C bindings, I suppose that your executable refers to the functions
> defined on ExecutionEngineBindings.cpp. It is not the same case as
> X86TargetMachine.cpp, which has a self-registering static C++ object and
> nothing refers to it from the user's code

I'm actually not using C bindings; I'm using the C++ API directly. I 
have no idea why I have to link that object file.

/Stein Roger